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Police arresting hundreds and hundreds at Palestine Action support rallies, including old pensioners who are standing up against Israel's genocide and the UK government's complicity in it, is honestly one of the lowest and most shameful and disgusting things I think I've ever witnessed a UK government and PM do. No one is voting Labour in the next general election, they'll blame the left for it when they lose of course, but Labour will be entirely responsible. Shameless, spineless, lickspittles, who believe in absolutely nothing except the power that they are squandering.
 
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Vashdaman said:
Police arresting hundreds and hundreds at Palestine Action support rallies, including old pensioners who are standing up against Israel's genocide and the UK government's complicity in it, is honestly one of the lowest and most shameful and disgusting things I think I've ever witnessed a UK government and PM do. No one is voting Labour in the next general election, they'll blame the left for it when they lose of course, but Labour will be entirely responsible. Shameless, spineless, lickspittles, who believe in absolutely nothing except the power that they are squandering.
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Labour never "blame the left" thats the whole point, two tier kier
No one should be protesting for palestine or israel, this is the united kingdom.i think its been going on for to long now, if they can arrest "the right" for protesting about the invasion via dover, they should 100% arrest protesters about free palestine. Be fair, not just blame "the right"
 
Really, Dave? There is literally nothing this Labour government hates more than the left. They're perfectly happy to shamelessly suck up to Donald Trump, and provide military support and political cover to Netanyahu, and chase after Reform and Farage in the worst ways trying to imitate their bigoted messaging. But Corbyn and his ilk? Completely intolerable to Labour.

If you don't think anyone in this country should gave two damns about the plight of humans in another land facing eradication, cool glad to know you'd not have stood up to the Nazis either, that's fine. But I think it lays your own hypocrisy bare that rather than displaying similar outrage to that which you did to arrests made during the Southport riots (which I'm going assume you view as non violent protests?), you've now become a cheer leader for police oppression. I'd have respected it a hell of a lot more if you'd at least shown some consistency in your attitude.
 
The liberal left vs. the conservative right (boo)-who's right and who's wrong? I generally find that the damn right wingers are against everything that I'm for as for equal rights for all people regardless of race, religion, sexual preference etc. True Israel was attacked by Hamas and lots of innocent people were killed but the Israelis have killed 80,000 Palestinians whose only crime was being in the wrong place at the wrong time when bombs were dropped and drones attacked them. Both sides were wrong but the Israelis have committed the bigger crime and if I choose to protest against that then that's my purgative and my right.
 
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Honestly, I don't get it, why is it so hard for people to be equally against authoritarianism regardless of who is on the receiving end? I don't think people should allowed to intimidate others and try to burn down hotels etc, but I don't have a problem with people protesting non-violently against immigration, that's their right even if I don't agree with them. But what annoys me is when people like Dave pick and choose when to be anti-authoritarian and when to happily cheer it on because the group they dislike is on the receiving end. That's having two tiers.
 
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The UK's Online Safety Act is a licence for censorship – and the rest of the world is following suit | Taylor Lorenz

From the US and Australia to France and Italy, those seeking to obliterate privacy and restrict content are on the move, says technology journalist Taylor Lorenz
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Puts tinfoil hat on it feels like there's some bad actors involved because a lot of democratic countrie are going use or planning to setup the same thing we have in the uk it doesn't feel it's happening organically even the un want this.i thought the un was supposed to protect people rights.Takes tinfoil hat off.
 
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The Age Verification Providers Association (one of the main corporate lobbyist groups), is pushing for Ofcom to do the following:

  • Require that sites detect VPN use.
  • Track all user behavior (presumably to detect UK users based on behavior).
  • Flag any suspect UK citizens for mandatory age verification or age or "prove their location".
As the age verification industry gains more profits from having their age verification services legally mandated, they will pour that money into lobbying for stricter requirements and more expansive age verification.

Things that they want site/services to flag UK users for:

Access during UK daytime but not in school hours
Language set to UK English
Visiting content popular mainly with UK audiences or younger demographics
Following or interacting mainly with UK-based peers
Time zone matching UK usage patterns
Content engagement typical of younger users
No payment credentials linked to the account
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They also want to leverage advertising networks to detect UK users:

Major social media platforms already use similar analytics to segment audiences for advertisers, reporting confidence in their user location accuracy, which is not surpising given the wealth of data points social media have available.
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If the user is suspected to be from the UK, they then want the site/service to demand detailed location data from their device:

Complete a highly effective age assurance check
Consent to a one-time geolocation to confirm the user is overseas
Modern browsers and apps can request location data from a device using GPS, Wi-Fi network mapping and mobile mast triangulation.
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They want all of this and more, purely so that they can maximize the profits of age verification companies. Any concerns about "child safety" are just lies to hide their greed. And these greedy fascists/authoritarians couldn't even be bothered to spellcheck their own post





I copied this form a reddit user.
 
Online store GamersGate is now requiring people verify their age to buy and view game and i tested it to see if true unfortunately it is true.
 
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Online Safety Act was botched from the start

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Luckily, we don’t have to imagine the scene because the High Court judgment details the last government’s reaction when it discovered this potentially rather large flaw. First, we are told, the relevant secretary of state (Michelle Donelan) expressed “concern” that the legislation might whack sites such as Amazon instead of Pornhub. In response, officials explained that the regulation in question was “not primarily aimed at … the protection of children”, but was about regulating “services that have a significant influence over public discourse”, a phrase that rather gives away the political thinking behind the act.
 
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Nahh,always stood the same stance, people should have a right to protest about concerns in this country, not about free palestine and gaza, you want protest about that, go their and protest if you want, not in the uk, people 100% should be protesting about (human beings), its not inhumane, would you house 1?or 2? Or a family? Country is corrupt top to bottom, then again, i guess you thought it was hilarious when a btitish family got evicted and and (human beings) took the house, (redacted by mod) lefty do gooders
Dont bother replying, i cant be arsed bother with (redacted by mod)
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So you not only agree with this government's authoritarian crack down on free speech, but in fact you think all protest relating to cornerns and issues abroad (despite our government's involvement in such issues) should be made illegal? You don't believe in free speech then, Dave. And you are completely ignorant of the long history and tradition in this country of such protest. With all due respect, you don't actually care about your own country's history and values. I think any veteran of WW2 who is still alive would certainly consider your attitude abominable. Don't you care about that or ever think about that?

I really think as the last survivors of that war generation die off, this sort of cognitive dissonance people display will get worse and worse. We're alread seeing people throwing Nazi salutes at these "patriotic' anti immigrant rallies. The whole world is going mad.

Also just to make this clear, the people protesting against the genocide in gaza are not only protesting about a foreign issue, they are protesting against our own government's involvement. The UK sells weapons to Israel, and also provides additional undisclosed military support. And many people, quite rightly, don't think we should.
 
UK or US, what does it even matter any more? The US has a raving lunatic in the white house who's determined to turn the country into a dictatorship, the UK is starting to exhibit signs of rightwing rot.....!!
 
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